PMID- 24620898 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151021 LR - 20211021 IS - 1369-1600 (Electronic) IS - 1355-6215 (Print) IS - 1355-6215 (Linking) VI - 20 IP - 2 DP - 2015 Mar TI - Dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) circuitry in rodent models of cocaine use: implications for drug addiction therapies. PG - 215-26 LID - 10.1111/adb.12132 [doi] AB - Although the importance of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) in cocaine addiction is well established, its precise contribution to cocaine seeking, taking and relapse remains incompletely understood. In particular, across two different models of cocaine self-administration, pharmacological or optogenetic activation of the dorsal MPFC has been reported to sometimes promote and sometimes inhibit cocaine seeking. We highlight important methodological differences between the two experimental paradigms and propose a framework to potentially reconcile the apparent discrepancy. We also draw parallels between these pre-clinical models of cocaine self-administration and human neuro-imaging studies in cocaine users, and argue that both lines of evidence point to dynamic interactions between cue-reactivity processes and control processes within the dorsal MPFC circuitry. From a translational perspective, these findings underscore the importance of interventions and therapeutics targeting not just a brain region, but a specific computational process within that brain region, and may have implications for the design and implementation of more effective treatments for human cocaine addiction. CI - Published 2014. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. FAU - Jasinska, Agnes J AU - Jasinska AJ AD - Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA. FAU - Chen, Billy T AU - Chen BT FAU - Bonci, Antonello AU - Bonci A FAU - Stein, Elliot A AU - Stein EA LA - eng GR - Z99 DA999999/Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural PT - Review DEP - 20140313 PL - United States TA - Addict Biol JT - Addiction biology JID - 9604935 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain/physiopathology MH - Cocaine-Related Disorders/*physiopathology MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Humans MH - Prefrontal Cortex/*physiopathology MH - Rats MH - Self Administration PMC - PMC4163139 MID - NIHMS571091 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Addiction OT - cocaine OT - medial prefrontal cortex OT - prelimbic cortex EDAT- 2014/03/14 06:00 MHDA- 2015/10/22 06:00 PMCR- 2016/03/01 CRDT- 2014/03/14 06:00 PHST- 2014/03/14 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/03/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/10/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1111/adb.12132 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Addict Biol. 2015 Mar;20(2):215-26. doi: 10.1111/adb.12132. Epub 2014 Mar 13.